watertom

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by watertom 5y ago
It was the rise of phytoplankton that created the atmosphere necessary for human life. It will be the collapse of the phytoplankton that will eliminate the the atmosphere necessary for human life. Humans won’t be around to see the planet wa
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by watertom 5y ago
A more accurate way to say “best practices” is to say “minimally acceptable”. This one trick is especially helpful when talking to management. If everyone is doing it, then it means it’s the bare minimum that you should be doing, in order
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by watertom 5y ago
The concept of “capital gains” in the U.S. is a joke, unless you buy stock directly from the company, or buy when the company goes public, there is no capital investment. Once the company sells stock to the public, further purchase or sal
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by watertom 5y ago
The Zodiac didn't inspire the song, the Hound of the Baskerville's inspired the song. "So the Zodiac actually emerged some months after the song was finished" Story behind the song "Dire Wolf" http:/&#x
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by watertom 5y ago
Maximizing profit and shareholder value is the only thing that matters to the executives, and BOD of Facebook. Just like tobacco companies, just like Exxon, just like every other company. I’m baffled by the population’s belief that ANY comp
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by watertom 5y ago
Ah chemistry class. Our teacher would do a simple demonstration every year with a small piece of sodium and water. The plan was to have the small piece of sodium fizz around in the bell jar of water. He kept pulling off pieces of sodium
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by watertom 5y ago
Dynamic body movement, dancing, running, jumping. Desk jobs force us to be static, the longer we are static the more accustomed our muscles, tendons, ligaments and nervous system become to being static. Stretching doesn’t overcome a lac
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by watertom 5y ago
I didn’t know there was a reason to be on social media.
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by watertom 5y ago
AIDS, (HIV) spent a long time in human the population before it became a serious problem.
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by watertom 5y ago
Afghanistan was a live combat training exercise. It gave valuable experience to career officers who will lead the U. S. Military for the next 30 years. Russia and China can’t deploy troops in their own country. The U.S. military can land 1
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by watertom 5y ago
My 2019 Honda Accord LX got totaled from the Ida flooding, it had 16k miles on it, I paid $22K. Looking at cars now I’m seeing 2109 LX’s with 30K mikes selling for $26-28K it’s crazy.
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by watertom 5y ago
It feels like the Government pay system. Opening up salary information means that everything about salary needs to be equal, fair and objective. Basically the review system will become pass fail. Reviews will become bland and meaningless,
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by watertom 5y ago
I don’t understand why you are shocked. Ethics should follow the same standard normal distribution model as everything else. Which means that 50% of the population has less than average ethics.
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by watertom 5y ago
The trap isn't bargaining, the trap is allowing someone to shift the responsibility from demand to creation. What I mean is that the role of demand hasn't fully defined exactly what they want, it's nebulous, once the demand r
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by watertom 5y ago
When you have 7x the number of humans the planet can support with natural resourse there is not "sustainable manner" in which to operation when consuming natural resources.
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by watertom 5y ago
I guess I'm trying to figure out why it costs more than some 3d printers
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by watertom 5y ago
Ancient native American stone eel traps still in place, the Susquehanna River near Danville, PA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbbKJ17_No
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by watertom 5y ago
When China declared their emergency on 12/31/2019, the rest of the world should have closed their borders to travelers who had been in China for the previous 60 days. If the U.S. had done this the rest of the world would have foll
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by watertom 5y ago
hmmm, maybe it's just me but your tone seems thoughtfully heartless. You are heartbroken that public spaces can't be used by all, but you aren't heartbroken that so many people have no other options other than to live in thos
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by watertom 5y ago
A lot of people who are homeless have mental health issues and are homeless due to those issues, it's almost like they need to be cared for in a mental health environment because being homeless isn't actually their problem. A lot
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by watertom 5y ago
I'm so glad she said this: “there’s a long history” in the United States of people “needing to show their papers” Now maybe we can get rid of drivers licenses, and passports, and Social Security Cards, and car insurance cards, and heal
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by watertom 5y ago
Not designed for individuals or families, this is strictly a business offering.
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by watertom 5y ago
Return on investment, essentially a zero barrier to entry, and immediate gratification, and it's wildly flexible. It takes about 10 minutes to learn the basics a spreadsheet, and what you get back is immense. You couldn't get pyth
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by watertom 5y ago
Nitrous oxide is 300 times more powerful in trapping heat than carbon dioxide and it lasts for 114 years in the atmosphere, and scientists aren't exactly sure how much nitrous oxide is released by thawing permafrost.
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by watertom 5y ago
I just want my 2 external monitors to work, 1 in portrait, the other in landscape in my M1 MacBook Pro. I bought a Pluggable doc, for $300, of course it wasn’t until after I couldn’t get it to work did Pluggable team tell me it wouldn’t wor
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by watertom 5y ago
Using electricity power lights to grow plants should be illegal. Growing a recreational drug using lights is beyond criminal. We need to start charging for electricity based on type of usage.
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by watertom 5y ago
live in a large metropolis and be a social butterfly, or be a social climber.
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by watertom 5y ago
Graduated in 85. Drinking age was 21 in my state. First two years, any student could sign out the dorm lounge and with $40 and the school would provide 1/2 keg of beer, $80 would get you (2) 1/2 kegs, $120 etc. Spring weekend, no
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by watertom 5y ago
and the only way global warming will get derailed, well, there are also super volcanoes....
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by watertom 5y ago
The problem is that the girls can't afford to buy a book singularly. Masha needs 7 kopecks to buy 1 book "Misha lacked one", which means to me as an native English speaker that Misha needed just one more Kopeck in order to pu

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